We have already setup our business in Azure and utilize Public IPs in our infrastructure that are used by many different clients. With the release of Standard SKU Load Balancer and the requirement for Standard SKU Public IPs, we cannot proceed to upgrade our setup. A change in IPs would mean weeks or even months in planning/communication and reconfiguration of firewalls,VPNs,application restrictions.

I am looking for a way to completely block out access to azure resources from outside of Japan. An access from abroad is most likely from a person who are not from our company.

Recently, I am terribly worried because there are a lot of illegal access from the outside country. It's very reassuring to have the ability to shut off foreign access in Azure. This scenario is difficult to achieve because the NSG feature has a limit in a number of IP addresses which can be restricted.

Please provide an api that will us to gather the full list of azure ip addresses, the ones added in the last week, and the ones deleted in the last week. This would be used to automate the weekly changes we need to make to accommodate these changes.

Thanks for the suggestion. If you are referring to the scenario where the IP address you’re assigned be recognized as reflecting the actual location of your deployment, then please be aware we have a project underway to improve our reporting to the major geo-location service providers.

All Azure quotes should be exposed via API and portal. For example the number of frontend IP addresses allowed on an external load balancer

All Azure quotas should be exposed via API and portal.
For example the number of frontend IP addresses permitted for an external load balancer is not exposed in the portal, via Powershell or even API.
This makes it easier to anticipate when nearing a configured quota.

When using the portal to create reserved IPs the name gets prepended with "Group <groupname> <reserved ip name>". Then, when it's displayed it only shows what was entered, so it's very deceiving. If you use powershell to view your list of reserved IPs you can see the actual name and it's usable.